释义 |
a chicken-and-egg problem a chicken and egg situation/problemA situation in which it is unknown what happened, or what needs to happen, first. You need experience to get a job, but you need a job to get experience. It's a chicken and egg situation.See also: and, chicken, egg, problem, situationa chicken-and-egg problem an unresolved question as to which of two things caused the other. This expression comes from the traditional riddle: ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’See also: problem |